Saylor
The Bulk Payment feature in SaylorPay allows you to
automatically make as many payments as you wish to third parties in a very
simple and convenient way. This feature saves you the stress of having to
attend to each payment one at a time, and that too manually in a time-consuming
manner.
With SaylorPay, it only takes a few simple steps to make
hundreds of payments with our automated USSD feature.
SaylorPay offers 3 simple ways to
make bulk payments based on the data source. These data sources are
·
File Import and
·
Webhook
In this post, we
will walk you through how to make bulk payments from File Import. To do this,
follow these steps;
Step 1: Launch SaylorPay & enable Merchant Mode
Open the SaylorPay app and enable Merchant Mode if it
isn’t already active.
Step 2: Navigate to Bulk Payments
Select "Bulk Payments" from the main menu.
Step 3: Select Data Source
Tap on the down facing arrow and select "Import Data From
File"
Step 4: Select and Import File containing payment details
Tap on "Import File" and choose the CSV or Excel
File containing payment details.
Important Note
The CSV or Excel File containing payment details must be in the exact same format illustrated using the sample below;
Tip: When entering the phone number in excel, start with an
apostrophe (eg. ‘0205678910, ‘0275678910), else Excel will consider your input
as numeric and remove the zero at the start of the number.
Alternatively;
ü
Right click Column A's header
ü
Select “Format Cells...”
ü
Select “Text” and click “OK”
You can now enter the phone number as it is (eg. 0205678910)
SaylorPay will automatically extract the payment details
from the CSV or Excel file you select provided it follows the exact format
illustrated in the preceding step.
Step 5: Set Payment Processing Interval
The default and minimum Payment Processing Interval
(in seconds) is 30. You can however change this to any interval of your
choice.
Tip: The Payment Processing Interval determines how long SaylorPay takes to start processing a new payment request in the queue after completing the last payment.
Step 6: Enter your Mobile Money PIN
Note that making mobile money payment(s) always requires
your authorization (via your PIN) and to completely automate the process, you
will need to provide your PIN for each payment in the queue to be automatically
authorized at your request.
Note that SaylorPay does NOT Collect or Know your PIN. Learn
more about this in our Privacy Policy.
Step 7: Select a default SIM
Choose and set your MTN Merchant SIM as the default SIM slot to make payments from.
Step 8: Save Settings
Once done with the steps above, select “Save Settings”.
Click “Start” whenever to begin processing payments.
Click “Stop” to pause payment processing.
Additional features
You can view the list of payment requests anytime
You can edit or delete individual requests as
and when needed
You can delete all data from the database by using
the red master delete icon
Prefer watching rather than reading? Checkout our full step-by-step video tutorial below
